Ablative heat transfer in a shrinking packed-bed of ZnO undergoing solar thermal dissociation

AIChE Journal

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1659-1666

  Schunk, L O ^a   Lipinski W ^b   Steinfeld, A ^c  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ablation; Concentrated; Conduction; Convection; Dissociation; Heat transfer; Packed bed; Radiation; Shrinking; Sintering; Solar energy; Zinc oxide

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATED; CONDUCTION; CONVECTION; PACKED-BED; SHRINKING;

ABLATION; DISSOCIATION; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; REACTION KINETICS; SEMICONDUCTING ZINC COMPOUNDS; SHRINKAGE; SINTERING; SOLAR RADIATION; ZINC; ZINC OXIDE;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 67650721481     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.11782     Document Type: Article

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